I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image